how is disability shown in coming down the mountain

Coming Down The Mountain Disability Clip

Disability in coming down the mountain

In this essay, I, will be looking at how disability is portrayed through misse en-scene, sound, camera movement and angles and editing in the short clip that I watched form the TV show Coming down the mountain.

The first thing I’m looking at is misses en-scene. The first part of misses en scene that I noticed was that the kid with downs syndrome had a very messy room compared to his brothers which is very tidy and organised with just a few band posters on the wall. The fact that the disabled kids room is messy and very childlike represents disability is because it shows that disabled people’s minds don’t mature as quickly as people who don’t have a disability. The next thing that I noticed was the colours of the two boys room. The disabled boys side was very colourful while the boy who wasn’t disabled had a very dark themed room with lots of black and grey items in it. This represents disability because it shows that disabled people are very childlike and always happy. On the flip side, it shows that having a disabled brother can make you very upset and lead you to a dark state of mind and to a very dark place.

The second area I’m going to touch on is sound. The first area I’m looking at is the soundtrack/song that is on in the morning. The song that is playing in the background while the family is quite a cheery song but the whole family is unhappy and they are all a bit down about everything and the father gets so angry about the breakfast situation that he nearly starts an argument. The second area of sound I am going to talk about is dialogue. The areas where the disabled boy is talking. This represents disability because it shows that listening with a disabled person can be challenging and annoying as it takes them a long time to say what they want to say and it can be very hard to understand them and this can lead them to losing their temper.

The third are I will look at is camera angles and movement. The first shot that I noticed was a bird’s eye view. This is useful in the scene because it acts as an establishing shot and gives the viewers an idea about the room in which the two brothers are staying in. this represents disability because it’s the first time that the viewers get to see the difference between the disabled boys room and the boy who isn’t disabled side of the room. One shot that I really noticed was a medium shot when the disabled boy was on the bus coming home from school on his own because his brother had gone to a party.  This shot shows us just how vulnerable disabled kids can be when they are left on their own or have to do something on their own.